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APPLICATION FILED MAR. 25, 1914.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

, App1icationfi1edMarch25,1914. Seria1No.827,196. s v

To all whom it concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS X. Mum), a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have inventeda new and. useful Improvement in Brackets, of which the following'is a specification.

My invention relates to an 'improvemen in brackets, which I have devised for use, particularly, in poultry-cars of steel-con: struction, wherein the coop-doors on opposite sides of the central aisle have to be hinged to the channel-beam posts of the coop-structures and to latch themselves, when raised to close them, for. holding them releasably in their closed condition. i

In the accompanying drawings, Figurel is ageneral view representing a section taken lengthwis through the-aisle-floorofa portion of a poultry-car,showing coops at one side of the aisle in elevation providedwith doors hinged and fastened in their'raisedcondition of closure by means of my improvement; Fig.2 is an enlarged broken View showing in operative position one of the door hinging and latching loracketsin elevation; Fig. 3 is a section on line 3, Fig.

2; Fig. 4 is a section on line 4, Fig. 2; Fig.

5 is a sectionon line 5, Fig. 4:; Fig. 6- is a section on line 6, Fig. 2, and Fig. 7 is a broken view showing one of the ears of the bracket in section and the manner of releasably fastening therein a door-pivot.

In a poultry-car for which my improvement is particularlydesigned, the frame of I the car is a steel structure involving channelbar posts 7 at intervals along opposite sides of the central aisle'8 (Fig. 1), these posts marking the side-walls .of the tiers ofcoops and containing openings 9 for the troughs (not shown), one of which is located in line with through it into place and withdrawn through it into the aisle for emptying and replenishing purposes. The front or aislemember of the base of each horizontal row of the coops (except the lower horizontal row of the same) is an angle-bar 10, the horizontal web of which is cut away, as shown in Fig. 4, at each post to embrace it between the sections, and thevertical web is riveted to the post.

For hinging the doors 11, which are of usual construction, each involving a frame 12 of general U-shapehaving elongated eyes 12 in the ends of its legs between which expost where it crosses the latter.

each post-opening to be inserted Patented Nov. 3, 1914.

tend spaced rodsl3 braced by. a central transversely extending bar, I provide the bracket 14. This bracket comprises a flat platev containing a rivet-hole 15 near each end, and from the upper corners of the plate ends project forwardly cars 16, 16 having countersunk outer faces and containing rectangularholes 17. In each ear-hole 17 fits a pin formed on its outer end with a pintle l8 extendingfroin a, shoulder 19 to abut against the-outer countersunk "face of the ear with the ;rectangular portion of the pin fitting a hole 17, at the inner side of which that pin-portion contains a key-hole 20, beveled onits inner side to receive a split headed key 21 having its shank correspondingly beveled to fit wedgingly in a hole20.

A bracket ltis riveted to a post 7 through the rivet-holes 15, the rivets serving at the same time to fasten an angle-bar 10 to the One of these brackets is thus fastened in placeto extend 7 its pintlesyinto, position 'to have mounted on them adjacent doors ll atthe eyes providedin the lower ends ofthe arms of their frames 12. To hinge an end of a door in this manner, the pin is inserted at 1ts pintle-endinto the eye provided in thedoorframe, and its opposite end is then passed through a bracket-ear wherein it is releasably fastened by inserting a key 21 into the pin-hole 20 to wedge the pin in place with its shoulder tight against the face of the ear. In this way, each bracket serving to hinge the adjacent ends of each two doors, I

the doors are firmly hinged throughout the coops in the car. I p The brackets are formed as described only for the doors of each lowermost horizontal row of the coops. For the doors above that row each bracket is provided with legs 22 depending from the end-portions of the bracket-plate, these legs being slightly offset, as shown at 23 in Fig. 3, to fit over the vertical web of an angle-bar 10 crossed by them; and each leg is provided on the lower end of its face with a hook or catch 24 to be engaged by the frame of a door when raised for releasably holding the latterin its closed 25 to be prevented by the latter from becoming unlatched. Suflicient play for the pine tles is afforded by the elongated eyes l2 engaging them to permit the door-frames, in closing the doors, to ride over the hook-ends of the catches 24 and drop to seat on the shank-portions of the latter.

As will thus be seen, the bracket,for fastening which to a post 7 are employed the same rivets required to fasten an angle-bar 1O thereto, affords very desirable means for both stably hingin the coop-doors and holding them releasa ly in their closed condition; and the bracket-pins enable the operations of hinging the doors in place and removing them to be performed expeditiously with great. facility.

W'hat Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A door-whinging bracket for poultry-car coop-doors. comprising aplate adapted to doors of a poultry-car, comprising a plate be secured to an aisle-post in the car and provided with a pair of perforate ears, angular pins fitting the ear-perforations and having pintles formed on their outwardlyprojecting ends and intermediate shoulders to bear against the outer faces of said ears, and means on the outer ends of said pins for removably fastening them in place, the pintles on each bracket serving as hinge-members for hinging two adjacent coop-doors on said post. i

2. A door-hinging bracket for the coopdoors of a poultry-car, comprising a plate adapted to be secured to an aisle-post in the to bear against the outer faces of said ears,

and keys fitting said holes for fastening the serving as hinge-members for hinging two adjacent coop-doors on said post.

3. A door-hi'nging bracket for poultry-car coop-doors, comprising a plate adapted to be secured to an aisle-post in the car and pins in place, the'pintles on each bracket provided with pintle-forming pins serving as hinge-members for hinging two adjacent coop-doors on said post, and legs depending from the plate, provided withhooks for engagement with doors below the bracket to hold them when raised for closure, and with door-stops above the hooks.

4:. A door-hinging bracket for the coop adapted to be secured to an aisle-post in the having upwardly-inclined sections.

. FRANGISX. MUDD. In presence of- A. C. -FISCHER,"

D. C. THORSEN.

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